Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has erased what had been an 8-point deficit to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Florida to pull ahead in the state by 3 points, while holding a 2-point edge in Pennsylvania and running even in OH, according to polling released Wednesday.
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Most voters have difficulty swallowing President Obama’s superlatives for Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail last week and now rate her and Donald Trump equally when it comes to their preparedness for the White House. We’ll see. The other shocking number here is Hillary’s relatively poor polling with Latinos: 52/26 is a two-to-one margin but Democrats are counting on winning that demographic closer to three-to-one.
Donald Trump has slim leads over Hillary Clinton in a pair of critical battleground states, and is tied with her in a third, as the head-to-head presidential race has begun to take shape. Spokesman Michael Briggs said Sanders still supports holding a roll call vote at the convention to determine the nomination.
Five weeks after Clinton clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, the USA senator from Vermont ended his upstart campaign and joined her at a rally in Portsmouth to put their bitter primary battle behind them.
“She will be the Democratic nominee for president, and I intend to do everything I can to make certain she will be the next president of the United States”, Sanders told a raucous crowd that included plenty of vocal Sanders supporters.
“Trump’s also helped by the political environment with 71 percent of Florida voters agreeing “that the old ways don’t work and it’s time for radical change” and 80 percent of them agreeing “that public officials “‘don’t care much what people like me think.'” Trade is also helping Trump as 55 percent of Florida voters agree “that foreign trade agreements have hurt me personally” but 39 percent disagree.
The House speaker, who has been eagerly promoting the new “Better Way” agenda he helped craft in numerous media appearances, reiterated his support for Trump’s candidacy but noted their many clashes on policy issues, such as Trump’s call on a ban from Muslims entering the country and the mass deportation of the roughly 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
Sanders hesitated to weigh in on the fight between U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Trump.
“She’s a crook, and I’m not going to vote for a crook”, Bailey said, adding that she would write in Sanders’ name on the November ballot.
On Tuesday night, Ryan explained that one of the reasons for endorsing Trump a month later was that it came with the job requirements of being such a prominent party leader. Indeed, as The Washington Post’s Greg Sargent details, the pro-Clinton super PAC has a series of ads highlighting many of those stark differences (e.g., on minimum wage, education, immigration). And he made it clear, “We are joining forces to defeat Donald Trump!”. The poll found a majority of the nation’s younger blacks and Asian-Americans have a favorable impression of Clinton, but the presumptive Democratic nominee struggles with whites and Hispanics.
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“In these stressful times for our country, this election must be about bringing our people together, not dividing us up”, Sanders said.
